You have ravished my heart, my sister, my spouse; you have ravished my heart with one look of your eyes, with one jewel of your necklace.
All Commentaries on Song of Songs 4:9 Go To Song of Songs 4
George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
Wounded. Symmachus, "given. "Septuagint, Protestants, "ravished. "Mystic writers suppose, that the spouse had been guilty of some negligence; or, on the contrary, that her deportment was most enchanting, bent on God, and on good works. (Calmet)
Sister. So Assuerus styles himself brother of Esther, xv. 12. Christ died for the unity of his Church. (Menochius)